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We are building a robot which will track a ball down. For it my task is to do image processing and finding the balls position and output its position details in terms of x and y coordinates.

As of now I am planning to use matlab for this and then convert the program in c.Can you guys suggest me some ideas for the algorithm as to how should I find the ball position, for eg. look at balls size etc.

Although Roborealm is a very good software for this application, we are not allowed to use these softwares since its a university project and we have to write our own algorithm. First we are going to try on Matlab and than do the whole project in C ..Please let me know about how I can go with this task.Thank you once again

I have further questions regarding image processing for ball detection. can you guys tell me if I should go for omnivision or regular vision which will see just the front view from the robot?which wil be better in terms of ease of processing and also is there a way to obtain omnivision by designing a dome kind of thing with mirrors and align the camera in such a way that it sees the complete picture (360 degree view).

yea Matlab has many image processing functions that can help u a lot,, all u have to do is check with the matlab help,,image processing toolbox, read there about blop detection,,or anything that u think can help u, its all there in the helpi did work with matlab but not pretty much with image stuff,,makin this with c or c++ is like hell, matlab is much easier,its you best shot,luck with your proj